US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Dec. 16 for "Wire harness" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,400, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wire harness" was invented by Yuta Kitahara (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness that includes: an exterior tube that is flexible and tubular; and electric wires inserted into the exterior tube, wherein the exterior tube is brought close to or into close contact with the electric wires by adjusting an internal pressure of the exterior tube to be lower than atmospheric pressure."

The patent was filed on March 22, 2022, under App...